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+'react-select': patch
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+Use an internal member to check if control onMouseDown should act and remove logic to bail out from an event if someone else listening to the event (usually in a capture phase) has called preventDefault().
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+This change was initiated to fix the interop between react-select and react-beautiful-dnd.
+But has meaning on its own because it is pretty clear that using the `defaultPrevented` event property for custom logic is a really bad practice.
+So, another way to filter when we want to trigger control onMouseDown normal logic has to be better defined and developed.
+
+Nothing to update from the consumers.